anyone else coding on the new HU's (HU_NBT, not CIC)? There are a lot of parameters that suggest support for WLAN/UPnP playback support (audio and video), as well as WLAN channel/ssid/encryption configuration parameters. I'll have to experiment some more with that.

The issue isn't the head Unit or any other hardware, rather it always a matter of what ISTA/P version was last used to program the car versus what PSdZData you have for E-Sys. So long as your PSdZData version is equal to or higher than the ISTA/P version on the car, there are no issues.

You can have car with older hardware, but newer software, so a car with CIC and 48.2 on it will have problems using 48.1 PSdZData, whereas a car with NBT and 48.1 on it won't.

The issue isn't the head Unit or any other hardware, rather it always a matter of what ISTA/P version was last used to program the car versus what PSdZData you have for E-Sys. So long as your PSdZData version is equal to or higher than the ISTA/P version on the car, there are no issues.

You can have car with older hardware, but newer software, so a car with CIC and 48.2 on it will have problems using 48.1 PSdZData, whereas a car with NBT and 48.1 on it won't.

Cool, got it now. Do we know what PSdZData would have been used in a week 201252 car or is a bit or a lottery?

As ur car have 6.5" screen & radio professional, so u physically have a headunit called "L7 Entry" (infotainment platform shared by F20). CIC is only physically installed if u have professional nav.
I think wht's happening here is, as basic BT function is built into the L7 Entry HU, if u have 6NH then there's no combox. If u have nav pro then, as it doesn't have built-in BT, if u have 6NH then it'll come with a combox with some features disabled.
For the combination of L7 Entry + 6NK/NL, the BT hardware is not present in the headunit as a combox is present, hence a different HU p/n is present.

This has never been clear to me, but is 606 Business Nav an option on the F30 in some markets, and if so, is Head Unit considered a CIC?

606 is business nav here in UK and I understand it has no combox.
I don't have 606 nav only 6nh Bluetooth.

From the ETK it looks like it, & it seems if ur pre-07/10 car w/606 have a HU hardware failure the dealer can replace the CIC-MID HU with a CHAMP2 HU.
Actually, wht are the hardware differences between the 2 platforms?

I wish I new brother.

I thought 606 Nav was always CIC-MID and that HU-CHAMP was used primarily in Mini's only, but it seems that is not the case.

Removed country controller (Hong Kong) from the VO. Office is now working, album art surprisingly activated on my non-nav. However, Chinese characters (songs or messages) no longer showing in the English interface. Went to settings, noticed my other default languages (Trad. and Simp. Chinese) are still there. Changed the menu language to Trad. Chinese and all songs and messages are displayed properly. Question is how can I see Chinese characters again if I use English as language?

Removed country controller (Hong Kong) from the VO. Office is now working, album art surprisingly activated on my non-nav. However, Chinese characters (songs or messages) no longer showing in the English interface. Went to settings, noticed my other default languages (Trad. and Simp. Chinese) are still there. Changed the menu language to Trad. Chinese and all songs and messages are displayed properly. Question is how can I see Chinese characters again if I use English as language?

lucky you! my car has to be left alone for half a day before the bluetooth option for Office & "Show Pictures" decided to show up.

Tried with both iPhone 4S and Blackberry Bold 9900, though i could view email & sms from both phone, these messages only comes from the primary phone (I typically use iPhone as the main phone & BB as additional phone).

Gut feels BB works better with Office, at the email address etc are laid out properly, whereas IOS always show unknown sender, with the sender name follows...

I don't know if it's normal, when we receive new message (text/email), there isn't any notification or gong or whatsoever, the message just sit in the message box, and have to manually trigger it to read.

And it only playback the message, does not support replies

While VO coding, I piggy back it with 6AL (BMW Live) and 6UH (Traffic Info). BMW Live works flawlessly, but the traffic doesn't seem so (when I check the FDL code, the option to make it work in Singapore was still not active - no biggy, just turn em on manually again)

Removed country controller (Hong Kong) from the VO. Office is now working, album art surprisingly activated on my non-nav. However, Chinese characters (songs or messages) no longer showing in the English interface. Went to settings, noticed my other default languages (Trad. and Simp. Chinese) are still there. Changed the menu language to Trad. Chinese and all songs and messages are displayed properly. Question is how can I see Chinese characters again if I use English as language?

Yes, album art is there cos we have 6NK as std, just that the country controller disabled it.

See this post:

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I get album art after remove 8LH.

It will affect display of Asian song names, but the problem can be fixed by change the "Country" under HU_CICHB from "ECU" to "Hong Kong"

If you want Hong Kong Country Controller, add S8LHA to your FA, and VO Code your Head Unit.